Patil household is going through a lot of mixed emotions. It has been a month of emotional upheaval of where grand parents are proud to see that their grand son on celluloid through Kiran Rao’s DHOBI GHAT. At the same time, they are missing their daughter the most.

To mark the beginning of the 25th death anniversary of Smita Patil, Smita Patil Foundation, an organisation that has been instrumental in keeping the memories of Smita Patil alive, wanted to organise a retrospect of her films in India in various metro cities just like they had a retrospect in New York by Lincoln Film Center.

Patil family then approached Kiran Rao and Aamir Khan to help with logistical support and sure enough that Kiran wanted to do anything to make this happen.

However, unfortunately, all this could not kick off on Dec 13, Smita’s death anniversary as most of the prints were not readily available. And those available were not in shape to be screened at the retrospect.Some prints are not in proper state and need to berestored